Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth fig <type9freak@gmail.com>:
> so i ask: what are ways i could make a grid really shine? through design
> and/or usage, things that make a grid nice to have. i still enjoy 9front on
> a single machine, and plan9port is now a must-have on my unix machines. i
> know plan 9 wants a network, but why would a user want plan 9 to have a
> network? if that makes any sense :^)

As a single user, the biggest benefit I get is being
able to rapidly test and debug, with netboot, shared
binaries, and the ability to panic without losing any
work, and being able to share stuff with my home
machine when I'm hacking in a coffee shop (like I am now)

With a group of people, being able to share servers
means being able to share work. At the hackathon last
summer, we had set up a CPU/file server. We were
netbooting test kernels, but also sharing our work
in progress, data, and documents via our home dirs,
getting feedback, and even at times just editing
other people's files (the file server had permissions
wide open)


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